Q&A in Communications Biology: Decoding ageing

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Melike was featured in a Q&A in Communications Biology, “Decoding ageing: Handan Melike Dönertaş on microbiomes, AI and improving lifespan and healthspan”.

The conversation covers the lab’s research interests — using computational approaches (machine learning, predictive modelling, causal inference, bioinformatics) alongside microbiota-transfer experiments to understand how the microbiome shapes ageing — and traces the path from MSc work on evolutionary and comparative genomics at Middle East Technical University, where the selection shadow idea first reframed ageing as a phenotype distinct from development, to starting the lab at FLI in January 2023.

Interview on Dönertas Group

Q&A in Communications Biology: Decoding ageing